The blurb on the back cover reads, "From the nine circles of Hell all the way to Purgatory & Paradise, a graphic adaptation of the classic poem as only Seymour Chwast imagines it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Although it is unlikely that Chwast was aware of the Dante paintings of Paul Laffoley, there is a similarity in the tondo drawing and the cartoon-like quality of the figures in the descent through the ten circles to purgatory, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.